Ji Di Tea Tree Sheng Puer 2016 (Complete Cake)

Unblended, single source, ancient old tea tree raw Puer tea. From the Meng Hai region of XiShuang BanNa. 'JiDi' is an area of old tea trees (predominantly 80-200 years old and above) that had been neglected for decades.

The land has an interesting history as it was for many years farmed by different households, who each had their own techniques and styles of maintaining the tea trees.Walking through the plantation you will see evidence of different pruning and other management methods.

Our friend Mr. Wu has been developing the site by introducing additional species of trees to encourage bio-diversity, whilst improving the management of the tea trees. On site there is a small workshop complex for processing and experimentation, which is becoming popular with national and international tea professionals to visit and exchange processing ideas and experience.

A highly accessible ancient sheng puer tea that offers a smooth taste, complex flavours and sweet finish. If you are looking for a great value ancient-old tea tree puer this is it. Such good quality unblended Sheng Puer is very hard to find, even more so at an affordable price.

Mr. Wu is a local from the MengHai region has been working with tea for over a decade. He has worked hard to develop his tea factory into a leading site for processing and packing boutique teas. Since 2010 Mr. Wu has started to lease and manage his own tea plantation so that he is able to control the whole process and to experiment more with cultivation and processing techniques.